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moonpiedumplings

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  • Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay $120000 within 24h

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  • After Twitter went to shit, where else do customers have to go for customer support like this?

    Admittedly, I didn't read the article, but I have seen plenty of other cases woth cloudfare or other big providers where people have only been able to set things right by kicking up a fuss on social media --- like that recent one with amazon aws.

  • NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community

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  • Just like Eelco's way of governing, it will likely have 0 effect on 99% of people using NixOS,

    Flakes not being stabilized, or worked on by Eelco, despite him literally being the inventor absolutely has an effect on every single Nix user. The flakes-nonflakes aplit is part of why the documentation on nix is so poor. Some things only support one or the other, and it's a pain.

    The aux fork of nix (which idk what's gonna happen to it) said they would stabilize the current implementation of flakes as v0. I hope this new council does the same, because it's been far too long. So much of the community uses flakes that's it's basically official, but it being "experimental" means they can't be mentioned in official docs, or included by default in the official installer. You have to edit a config file to enable flakes.

    The worst part of this all, is that the Determinate Systems nix installer, only comes with flakes and no channels (old way) - and Eelco literally works for Determinate Systems. Despite all of this, flakes are still "experimental".

    I hope things change. Flakes are legitimately better, a minor addition in complexity, in exchange for making it easy to reuse code. And finally having unified documentation and tooling (if flakes become the main way) will probably be the best benefit.

    I really hope this council moves flakes put of their "experimental" status. If so, then democracy has spoken: the users want flakes.